Investigating linguistic strategies of persuasion in “the open window” by Saki with specific reference to Johnstone's model : a stylistic study

Abstract EN

The current study is a stylistic study based on Johnstone's model that is applied to Saki's short story "The Open Window" to investigate the three linguistic strategies of the model throughout the story.

This study is an attempt to investigate persuasion as an influential strategy and to analyse the various techniques of persuasion used by the main characters to persuade each other.

It includes qualitative and quantitative analyses to fulfill its aims, and verify its hypotheses.

The findings of the analysis show that the utilization of Barbara Johnston's three persuasive strategies- quasilogical, presentational and analogical is closely related to the context of the story under investigation.